Display cabinet



Dec., 2S w26.

' lC. R. DAHLEY `DISPLAYCABINET Filed May 24, 1926 Patente Dec. 28, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OWEN R. BAILEY, F DAVENPORT, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-IIALF TO PETER BENDIXEN, 0F DAVENPORT, IOWA.

DISPLAY CABINET.

Application med May 24',

The object of this invention is to provide a cabinet in which may be effectively displayed womens garments and other articles, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the. drawing- Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view; and

Fig. 2 Ais a horizontal sectional View embodying one form of my invention.`

In the drawing, 5 designates a cabinet havingv a door 6 in its back-wall and a mirror 7 in its front-wall and also mirrors 8 in its side-walls. Additional mirrors 9 are arranged in the interior of the cabinet near the back-wall, these mirrors being pivotally mounted on pivots 10vat their upper and lower ends to permit the mirrors tobe swung about on vertical axes. y

The front and side mirrors are thetype which are not only transparent but are also capable of reliecting from either face of the glass, i. e., backwardly as well as forwardly. These mirrors are desirably made in accordance with the process defined in my copending application Serial No. 111,315, filed May 24, 1926. The mirrors-9 may be ordinary single-face mirrors. 4 p

A suitable illuminating device 11 is placed Yin the cabinet, tbebest location for this being at the upper forward corner of the cabinet, so that the light-rays will be reflected downwardly on the face of the model or inanikinadorned with the garment to be displayed, the model or manikin being positioned on the bottom ofthe cabinet immediately behind the mirror 7, at afpoint between the two mirrors 8.

lVhen the lamp 11 is extinguished, the interior of 4the cabinet is dark and, therefore, nothing can be seen on looking through the mirrors; the mirrors serve merely as mirrors and, being of'full length, i. e., the length ot cheval-mirrors, they are themselves at tractive to passers-by. When. however, the interior of the cabinet .is illuminated,'the

1926. Serial lNo. 111,316.

three front mirrors become transparent, f thereby permitting the object on display to be viewed directly through the mirrors, as with ordinary transparent glass. The rear mirrors 9 then come into use. These rear mirrors are adjustable, as set forth, to produce a great variety of effects. Y(These back mirrors not only reflect back views of the object on display taken from various angles, but they also receive and reflect the image of the object reflected from the rear-face of t the front dupleX mirror 6, thereby permitting a front-view of the object on display to be pictured a plurality of times. It will therefore be observed that by thus employing a duplex transparent mirror in the front- 6U wall of the cabinet' and a supplemental adjustable mirror at the back, a very complete as well as attractive and puzzling vexhibin tion of the garment or other article may be produced. In.v practice, it is intended 4that 65 the illuminating device shall be intermit tently actuated, so that at intervals the mirrors 7 and 8 shall act merely as ordinary mirrors, while in the other intervals thel unique display aforedescribed will suddenly come to the viewl of those who may be loolzing at their reflections in the mirrors.

It will` be understood that it is generally desirable to back the front and side mirrorsE for protective purposes. with a pla-.in ordinary sheet of glass, as shown' at 12, Fig. 2.

What I claim as new is:

A display cabinet embodying a casing having aduplex transparent mirror in its frontwall, a reflecting mirror in the back part of the casing positioned to receive and reflect the image reflected backwardly by said front mirror, and an illuminating device in the cabinet.A -v

In testimony whereof l ,hereunto aliix my signature.

owENR. BAILEY. 

